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When you get in a tight place and
everything goes against you, till it seems as though
you could not hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The kindest people are those who forgive and forget."
- Unknown
"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge
over which he
himself must pass."
- George Herbert
For a long time,
I just didn't know who I was,
where I belonged,
what people
I
belonged to.
~JULIA PÉREZ
The bitterest tears shed over graves
are for words left unsaid
and deeds
left
undone.
~HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
"Life is the first gift,
love is the second,
and
understanding the third."
--Marge Piercy
"Happiness is a function of accepting what is."
--Werner Erhard
"Once you get rid of the idea
that you must please other
people
before you please yourself,
and you begin to follow
your own instincts
- only then can you be successful."
--Raquel Welch
"You are the one who must choose your place."
--James Lane Allen
"Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
It is hard to fight an enemy
who has outposts in your head.
~SALLY KEMPTON
"It is good to remember that the tea kettle,
although up to
its neck in hot water,
continues to sing."
- Unknown
"You have not lived a perfect day,
even though you earned
your money,
unless you have done something for someone
who
will never be able to repay you."
--Ruth Smeltzer
What difference does it make if
the thing you scared of is real or not?
~TONI MORRISON
Realizing I was a lesbian made me feel
as if I was throwing a huge wrench
into the parental plan.
I thought about killing myself
every day. How could
I destroy
my parent's happiness?
~FELICE YESKEL
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
~EMMA GOLDMAN
"A wise man is he who does
not grieve for the thing which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has."
- Epictetus
"The best time to make friends is before you need them."
--Ethel Barrymore
"Regret is an appalling waste of energy;
you can't build on
it;
it is good only for wallowing."
--Katherine Mansfield
"Boast not thyself of to-morrow:
for thou knowest not what a
day may bring forth."
--Proverbs, 27: 1
"You can never plan the future by the past."
--Edmund Burke
"The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post."
--L. Thomas Holdcroft
"When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you."
- Lao-Tzu
"Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride.
Today, so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone."
--Rodney Dangerfield
I keep saying to myself, what's wrong with choosing
lesbianism. Maybe some
of us were born that way and
maybe some of us chose it. I keep trying to
figure out what's wrong with choosing it.
I think it's a fabulous choice.
What a great idea!
~JOANN LOULAN
"Never let yesterday use up today."
--Richard H. Nelson
My mother's definition of spiritual was
to care for and act on behalf of
life,
to keep people alive. Religion, she said,
is not sacred; people and
life are sacred.
~MARTA BENAVIDES
"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy."
- Source Unknown
You mustn't force sex to do the work of
love or love to do the work of sex.
~MARY McCARTHY
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
--Albert Einstein
"It is not because things are difficult
that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare
that they are difficult."
- Seneca
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation
determines what you do. Attitude determines
how well you do it."
- Lou Holtz
"Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing."
--Josh Billings
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help
create the fact."
--William James
"Changes are not only possible and predictable,
but to deny
them is to be an accomplice
to one's own necessary
vegetation."
--Gail Sheehy
"You must change in order to survive."
--Pearl Bailey
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone;
it has to be made, like bread;
re-made all the time, made new.
~URSULA K. LEGUIN
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